need help making rewind effect

[Rich Rubasch]

A good way to do this is with a deck and record the actual video reversing. But you could combine a combination of video look and a rolling horizontal bar along with a distortion of the footage. It’s real easy if you can actually rewind a deck and record it.

[Brandon]

Well, I would do it like that, but I already have my footage in the right speed in reverse.

[Filip Vandueren]

Try adding a wave warp set to only horizontal and do a whacky animate of it’s keyframes to mimic the loss of sync when rewinding.
Add some noisy layers that move up and down, perhaps add more noise, and check out Aharon Rabinowitz’s tutorial on a TV-screen look.

[Thehardmenpath]

If you are capable of recording a rewinding vcr into your disk, do it and mask the distortion lines. In in many vcrs are pure noise and stay in the same place.

[Aaron Strader]

There’s a time displacing filter in the Sapphire plugin pack that does exactly this.

“Time Slice” adds in the proper look of rewinding/ffwding footage. It also adds a funky wobbly look to it when you choose to deinterlace the filter.

[Matthew Daday]

You could try and digitize actual video rewinding, like someone else here suggested, but instead of using your actual video do it with a screen of black. Then you will get a nice black and white “matte” you can composite over your footage using transfer modes. I have done this before and it works well.
Matt